Changing health care systems from ethical, economic, and cross cultural perspectives
By: edited by Erich H. Loewy and Roberta Springer Loewy.
Contributors: Loewy, Erich H.; Loewy, Roberta Springer.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Medical ethics -- Congresses; Medical economics -- Congresses; Social medicine -- Congresses; Medical ethics -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health care systems and ethics / Erich H. Loewy; title: Facing finitude in health / Larry R. Churchill; title: Health care as a right / Eike-Henner W. Kluge; title: The Oregon health care plan ten years later / Michael J. Garland; title: A mortgage on the house of God / Perry A. Pugno; title: Values in medicine / Faith T. Fitzgerald; title: Generational conflicts and their impact on thinking about the healthcare system / Reimer Gronemeyer; title: The uninsured and the rationing of health care / David Chinitz and Avi Israeli; title: Application and implications of deontology, utilitarianism, and pragmatism for medical practice / Thor Cornelius; title: The old ethics and the new economics of health care / Ben Rich; title: Playing the HMO language game / Roberta Springer Loewy and Erich H. Loewy; title: Rationing health care in the United States and Canada / Walter Glannon; title: Altering capitation to reduce the incentive to undertreat patients inappropriately / Rory Jaffe; title: Cross cultural issues in medicine / Jeanny K. Park; title: Competing interests in pediatric managed care settings / Susan E. Zinner-Kemp.